U is supported by a bifilar suspension consisting of two cocoon fibres.
The cases removed, the rest of the cocoon is soaked in warm water until the gummy matter is softened and the fibres are free enough to be reeled.
Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.
The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
There is always a portion of the cocoon which is too tangled to be wound, and it is made into what is called spun silk.
But as the cutting of this hole in the cocoon injures the fibers, only just enough for the next year's crop are allowed to come out.
Secure if possible the silk cocoon and make a collection of silk fabrics.
Well, on the morning of the sixth of May, a female Great Peacock Moth came out of her cocoon in my presence, on the table of my insect-laboratory.
We will leave it there, knowing that after a while it will build a cocoon and turn into a Cotton-bee.
The cocoon is all finished now, except that the grub gives some finishing touches to the inside by glazing the walls with varnish to protect its delicate skin from the rough sand.
At any rate, about the end of the following May, the Mason-wasp's chamber holds a cocoon which again is shaped like a thimble.
The interloper makes the victim's cell and cocoon his own cell and cocoon; and next year, instead of the mistress of the house, there will come from below ground the bandit who stole the dwelling and ate the occupant.
With a small whisk-broom the cocoon is brushed until ends, which are as fine as a cobweb, come loose.
Then, to destroy the moth inside, it is subjected to heat, and the cocoon is then ready for spinning.
The bull horn blared and a second later, with MSO Kelly Lightfoot snugged in her dispensary cocoon and both troopers in body cushions, Car 56 lifted a foot from the roadway, and leaped forward on a turbulent pad of air.
Try not to move your head at all, Ben," Kelly called from her cocoon in the dispensary.
As Car 56's speed dropped back below the two hundred mile an hour mark the cocoon automatically slid open.
Only the safety cocoon kept Martin from being hurled against the instrument panel and in their bunks, Kelly Lightfoot and Clay Ferguson felt their insides dragging down into their legs.
Aft in the dispensary, Kelly was sealed into her bunk by a cocoon rolling out of the wall and encasing the hospital bed.
The larva that emerges from the windfalls moves generally to a tree, crawls up the trunk, and spins its cocoon under a ridge in the bark.
If we open the cocoon we shall find that the animal is now covered with a hard outside skeleton, that it cannot move freely, and that it cannot eat at all.
From the cocoon the moth comes ready to start a new generation.
The cremaster serves to anchor the pupa to its cocoon at the correct degree of emergence, and thus facilitates the eclosion of the imago.
The pupa, with four free abdominal segments in the female and five in the male, rests in a cocoonusually outside the mine.
The presence of circles of spines on the abdominal segments enables the "incomplete" pupa as a whole to work its way partly out of the cocoon when the time for the emergence of the imago draws near.
The pupa which has three or four free segments in the male and four or five in the female, rests in a cocoon within the food plant, often strengthened by chips of wood, or in a subterranean cocoon.
The pupa is incompletely obtect, with three (in some females only two) to five free abdominal segments, and emerges partly from the cocoon before the moth appears.
In the life-history of many Lepidoptera, the last act of the caterpillar is to spin a cocoon which may afford protection to the pupa.
The fully-fed larva winters in an underground cocoon and then changes into the most remarkable of all known lepidopterous pupae, with relatively enormous toothed mandibles which bite a way out of the cocoon in preparation for the final change.
The cocoon is reduced to a pad of silk, to which the pupa is attached, suspended by the cremastral hooks; in some families there is also a silken girdle around the waist-region.
The hairy larvae feed openly on leaves, while the soft and hairy pupa remains attached to its cocoon by the cremaster, although it is incompletely obtect and has three or four free abdominal segments.
Then, in another flash, he was back in hiscocoon again, prisoner in this decorous roomful of things which he did not want.
That is, it is shut up in a kind of case that it has spun for itself, like the cocoon of the silkworm or the caterpillar.
In about five days more it breaks out of this cocoon and appears as a fly with wings.
Then followed the yellow, compact cocoon requiring three or four days for its spinning.
After they leave the cocoon they eat no food, and they will live but a few days after their eggs are laid.
How clever people were to find anything that could be used instead of the real, carefully nurtured cocoon silk," mused his mother.
Care must be taken to submerge each cocoon evenly so that its entire surface will be covered; otherwise one end will be softened and the other end remain hard, in which case it cannot be reeled off.
When it gets ready to spin its cocoon it climbs until it finds a place that suits it.
We have tanks or basins of a graduated temperature, and the operators soon learn into which one to put a cocoon of a certain type.
Not only must the floss be removed from the outside of the cocoon before it is reeled, but also the first part of the filament, which usually is weak and too fine for use, must be wound off until the firm, strong thread is reached.
Like the others the silkworm died during his spinning, but this time he rotted away inside, leaving the cocoon black and mottled.
First came the loose, web-like oval within which the cocoon itself was to be made.
As one cocoon takes the place of another its filament blends unnoticed in the thread.
Often they cannot be run off at all because the two caterpillars that worked together to make the single cocoon have intertwined the threads until they break all to bits when we try to separate them.
The pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon about two inches below the surface of the earth.
The pupa is enclosed in a light cocoon amongst dead leaves, &c, on the surface of the ground.
Pupa with segments 9 to 11 free; not protruded from cocoon in emergence.
The pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon about one inch below the surface of the earth.
The pupa, which is enclosed in a slight cocoon constructed of earth and silk, is found on the surface of the ground.
The pupa is enclosed in a loose cocoon on the surface of the ground.
The pupa is enclosed in a cocoon formed of leaves fastened together with silk.
Pupa subterranean, or in a slightcocoon above ground.
The pupa is enclosed in a frail cocoon on the surface of the ground.
The pupa is enclosed in a cocoon of silk and refuse on the surface of the ground.
The pupa is enclosed in a light cocoon on the surface of the ground.
The pupa is concealed in a light cocoon constructed of the remains of the blossoms.
The pupa is enclosed in a cocoon of white silk, generally situated between two dead leaves on or near the ground.
He saw a cocoon hanging from a thread slender as a spider-web, and hidden in that cocoon the Green Daughter of the Green King.
Therefore, Swift Runner, move thy wheels that way; catch the cocoon and bring it to us.
And even he didn't quite have the nerve to tell them that the cocoon was pushing the Herringbone two points off course.
In April or May the chrysalis, surrounded by a loose cocoon formed of the hairs of the body interwoven with coarse silk, may be found in situations similar to those in which the larva passed the winter.
In this state the animal remains about three weeks; it then bursts its case and comes forth in the imago state, the moth having previously dissolved a portion of the cocoon by means of a fluid which it ejects.
During the time of spinning the cocoon the Silkworm decreases in length considerably, and after the work is done it is not half its original length.
The tissues of the nest intended for the reception of the new-born are of a cottony material, while those which will enwrap the cocoon containing the eggs possess all the resistant power necessary for the safety of the latter.
Azara tells us that in Paraguay the natives spin the cocoon of a great orange-coloured spider fully an inch in diameter.
It takes place when the caterpillar is first hatched; which lives perhaps, but in a very sickly state, till it should spin its cocoon and assume the pupa, when it expires.
Something similar has been observed by Reaumur with regard to the larva of Crioceris merdigera, which forms its cocoon with a kind of froth produced from the mouth[650].
De Azara states that in Paraguay a Spider forms a spherical cocoon for its eggs, an inch in diameter, of a yellow silk, which the inhabitants spin on account of the permanency of the color.
If a caterpillar spins its cocoon in a house, it foretells its desolation by death; if in your clothes, it warns you you will wear a shroud before the year is out.
The male Osmia splits his cocoon at the end of June and the female at the beginning of July.
Now it is the rule among the Bees for the males to issue from the cocoon a little earlier than the females.
The remnants of the cocoon are also thrown away, but not always, for the delicate silken wrapper sometimes adheres closely to the masonry.
Thus the base of the new cocoon is set in the bottom of the old cocoon.
He makes a few attempts upon the sides and, realizing his impotence, retires into his cell, where he waits for days and days, until his neighbour bursts her cocoon in her turn.
The colouring and the elegant regularity of the outer wrapper of the cocoon suggest some kind of basket-work made with tiny bits of bamboo, or a marquetry of exotic granules.
On the contrary: when the cocoon is finished, any one who had not witnessed the process of manufacture would be greatly puzzled to state the nature of the workmanship.
Next come a partition of pure resin, a large cocoon in a roomy chamber, a second partition of pure resin and, lastly, a smaller cocoon in a narrow chamber.
The first cocoon to burst may be the one at the bottom of the tube, the one at the top, the one in the middle or in any other part, indifferently.
The newly-hatched Osmia, after perforating his partition, finds himself faced with an unbroken cocoon that obstructs the road.
But, it may be thought, such a cocoon is exposed to the attacks of a number of insect enemies, who might easily find entrance to it at the opening thus left at one of its ends.
Having broken off the top of a cocoon he witnessed the singular spectacle of the larva proceeding to mend it again.
When it has passed through it, the elastic threads resume their former position, and the empty cocoon presents just the same appearance that it did before.
The time taken in the construction of this ingenious cocoon is not more than half-an-hour.
Upon the leaves of pear trees we may sometimes find a pretty cocoon of very slight and elegant texture, formed of silk, as shown in the cut.
A very singular cocoon is spun by the larva of a common moth, somewhat of the outline of a balloon in form.
The silk of its cocoon is of so strong a texture, and so closely gummed, that had both ends been similarly closed, the egress of the insect would have been impracticable.
Bonnet writes of the pupa of a moth, that it can climb up and down inside its cocoon like a chimney-sweep in a chimney!
The cocoon preserves precisely the same form after the insect has quitted it as before, and it is impossible, by the naked eye, to detect the place of its exit.
This cocoon is of a double structure; the true inner cocoon, which is very white, is placed within an outer envelope of silk, of a greyish or brownish colour.
In such situations the brown flask-shaped cocoon of the emperor moth may occasionally be discovered.
In this inner cocoon there is not so much as a single drop of water!
What do you suppose that piker's trying to crawl out of his cocoon for?
As soon, therefore, as the cocoonis made, it is put into hot water to kill the worm.
If this cocoon were left to itself, the worm would change to a moth, and the moth would eat its way out of this little house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cocoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
